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«11OPE THIS DOESN'T LOSE YOU VOTES”—Senator
Richard B. Russell of Georgia (left), campaigning in
Florida for the Democratic presidential nomination,
meets former U. S. Attorney General J. Howard Mc-
Grath (right) in West Palm Beach. Mc¢Grath, who is
vacationing in the resort city, said, ‘‘l hope this doesn’t
Jose you any votes,” as their picture was taken. In the
center is John H. Perry, owner of a c¢hain of Florida
newspapers.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Outstanding Shows Given
Peabody Awards Today
Profestants Ask
Siafue Be Moved
In New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, May I.—(AP)
A New Orleans citizen and five
Protestant ministers planned today
to go to the U. S, Supreme Court
in their effort to force removal of
a statue of Mother Cabrini from
city-owned land here,
George Singelmann, who
brought the eriginal suit in state
courts ag a citizen and taxpayer,
said the case will be appealed as
soon as the petition is prepared.
The plaintiffs lost in the Louis
iana courts Monday when the Su
preme Court refused to review an
carlier decision which upheld a
lower eourt verdict saying the city
f New Orleans had a right to ac
ept the statue as a gift and place
it in public preperty.
Basis of Appeal
Singelmann said the basis of his
appeal will be that placing the
Catholic saint’s statue on public
property violates the “separation
of church and state” provisions of
the U, S. Censtitution.
The Protestant ministers inter
vened in the case in support of
Singelmann’s suit.
The city of New Orleans per
nitted the order of Alhambra, &
ocial organization composed of
nembers of the Knights of Co
umbus, a Roman Catholic lay
nen’s organization, to place the
itatue of the saint on the neutral
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Linder's Case
Again Delayed
AP Special Washington Service
WASHINGTON, May I—(AP).
Another continuance in the case
of Georgia Agriculture Commis~
sioner Tom - Linder and ' others
charged with violating the Fed
eral Lobbyist Act has been grant
ed, attorneys said today.
The case was scheduled to be
heard tomorrow in U. §. District
Court but was put off until May
o
George F. Hirmon of the firm of
Wheeler and Wheeler told a re
porter the Justice Department had
isked for the continuance after
its attorney in the case, Ben Pol
lock, was injured in an accident.
The case has been put off about
14 times, Attorneys can’t recall
the exact number.
Besides Linder others invelved
are J. E. McDonald, former Texas
agriculture commissioner; Ralph
W. More, a former Texas fa}'m
trganization leader now residing
In Washington, the National Farm
Committee, and Robert M. Harris
of New York, -
. .
Librarian Meet
Is Held Today
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Public librarians from the Ath
“ns area (northeast Georgia) will
b€ in town through tomorrow for
& special librarians meet spon
fed by the Georgia Department
of Education, Directing the meet
ng will be Miss Lucile Nix, and
Vliss Sarah Jones from that de
partment,
Initial meeting of the lbrarians
Wias set for 1 o’eloek today with
‘upper planned for the Georgian
Hotel tonight. Speelal guests of
e supper will be members of the
local Library Board,
_ The meeting of librarlans will
@ew head librarians and lbrary
staff Z"“b"" from a radius of
some fifty miles,
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
;
Atlanta Program
. . .
Receives Citation
NEW YORK, May I—CQutstand
ing and meritorious accomplish
-1 ments by radio and television dur=
ing 1951 were recognized with the
presentations of George Foster
Peabody Awards at a luncheon
meeting today (May 1) of the Ra
dio Executives Club »f New York
in the Roosevelt Hotel. I
The winners, as announced by
Dean John E. Drewry of the Uni- t
versity of Georgia’s Henry W,
Grady School of- wm’
which, with the Peabody board,
administers the awards, are: l
Winners [
Radio Educational Programs— |
“The Nation's Nightroare”, Co-|
lumbia Broadcasting System, "Inc. l
Radio Youth Programs—Newl
York Times Youth Forum, WQXR !
(Liberty) New York City. !
Radio’s Contribution to Interna
tional Understanding — Alistair'
Cooke’s “Letter from Ameyrica”, !
British Broadcasting Corpor:{ion. i
Radio Entertainment (Non-mu
sical)—“Bob and Ray”, National
Broadcasting Company. =
Television Educational Pro- |
grams— “What in the World",l
WGAU (CBS), Philadelphia. l
Television News and Interpreta- |
tion—Ed Murrow and “See It
Now”, Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem, Inc. ‘
Television Entertainment (Mu
sic)—Gian Carlo Menotti (“Amahl
and the Night Visitors”), National
Broadcasting Company.
Television Entertainment (Non
musical) — Celanese Thea tre,
American Broadcasting Company.
Meritorious Regional Public
Service by Radio and Television—
WSB (NBC), Atlanta, Georgia
(“The Pastor’s Study” and “Qur |
World Today"). |
Meritorious Local Public Serv
ice by Radio—KPOJ (Mutual),
Portland, Oregon. |
Weeks Read Citations |
The citations were read and the |
presentations made by Edward
Weeks, editor, Atlantic Monthly,
and chairman of the Peabody
board. Responses were made by
the winners and their representa
tives. I. E. Showerman, president,
Radio Executives Club, was in
charge of the luncheon, which as-|
sembl&d several hundred of the
leaders in radio and televjsion,
and which was broadcast and tele
cast by networks and New Yorkl
stations. ‘
This was the twelfth successive
year that Peabody Awards havel
been presented/and sixth conseci-~
tive year that the presemations‘
‘have been made at a luncheon
‘meeting of the Radio Executives’
Club of New York. Those awardsl
are designed to recognize the most
disinterested and meritorious pub
lic service rendered each year by
radio and television, and to per
petuate the memory of the latel
George Foster Peabody, & nativel
of ‘Columbus, Georgia, who be- |
came a successful New York |
‘banker and philanthropist, and, by |
gpecial legislative act, a iife trustee |
‘of the University of Georgia.
iThese Peabody Awards were set
‘up at the behest of and with the
assistance of the National Associa=- '
!tion of Broadcasters and are ad-t
;ministered by the Henry W. |
Grady School of Journalisne: and]‘
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Steel Companies Ask U. S. Court Of Appeals To Bar
Government From Raising Wages During Plant Seizure
South's Finest Golfers Convene In
Athens For Intercollegiate Tourney
"
Anti - Kefauver
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, May I—(AP).
A new move to “draft” Gov. Adlai
E. Stevenson of Illinois for a pres
idential nomination is under way
among Democrats opposed to Sen.
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee,
The move has the backing of
some national party lieutenants
who have shown their ability in
maneuvering for candidates of
their choice in recent Democratic
conventions, particularly in the
selection of vice presidential nom
inees.
Could Not Accept
Stevenson has said emphatically
he “could not accept” a presiden
tial nomination since he is run
ning for governor of Illinois.
But Washington friends believe
the governor tempered that refu
sal’ by saying recently he would"
be “flattered” if the party decided
he could be of more service in the
White House.
Their belief «"that Stevenson
might be available—under some
circumstances—is bolstered by re
ports that calls from party leaders
here to the governor have not
brought any flat refusal to accept
a draft,
May Be Willing
They think that, if the Repub
licans nominate Sen. Robert A.
Taft of Ohio, Stevenson would be~
come~awilting candidate:
As the situation stands, Sen. Ke
fauver seems likely to go into the
Chicago convention with the
largest number of delegates com
mitted outside the South.
Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia
may top him—with strictly South
ern delegates—if Russell wins in
a popularity test in Florida’s pri
mary next Tuesday.
The same day, however, Kefau
ver may be collecting a large
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CLARK GAINES
Secretary of the Georgia
Department of Commerce
Clark Gaines |
Institute Speak
Clark Gaines, secretary of the
Georgia Department of Com
merce, will be one of the speak
ers for the annual Radio and
Television Institute to be held at
the University «f Georgia, May
8-10. ;
Mr. Gaines is scheduled to ad
dress a dinner meeting of the
three-day institute which will be
attended by leaders in radio and
television throughout Georgia,
Announcement of Mr. Gaines as
a speaker brings to five the num
ber of people who have accepted
invitations to address the Insti
tute sponsored by the Georgia
Association of Broadcasters and
the University’s Henry Grady
School of Journalism.
i Appearing on the program with
'hixp will be Lee B. Wailes, vice
president in charge of operations
'of the Fort Industry Company,
which owns radio and television
|stations throughout the country;
iMartha Rountree, well-known
ltelevision producer; Charter Hes
iep, radio and TV information
| chief for the Atomic Energy Com
imission; and Ford Bond, radio
announcer and producer.
! The Radio-TV Institute will also
ifeature a number of workshop
| sessions led by prominent Geor
jgia radio and television leaders.
' Mr. Gaines has been secretary
‘of the Georgia Department of
iCommerce since its creation in
! 1949 and has had wide experience
in business and in public affairs.
{ A native of Hart county, Mr,
Gaines now lives in Elberton. He
!is a graduate of the University of
Georgia where he was a member
lof numerous honorary organiza
tions and president of his senior
class.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGCIA OVER A CENTURY.
ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1952,
Griffin Moody Leads Georgia
Team In Defending SEC Title
BY MERRITT POUND, JR.
Banner-Herald Sports Editor
' One hundred thirty-three of the South’s finest college
golfers teed off today in the first of the four 18-hole grinds
|in the 15th ananual Scuthern Intercollegiate golf cham
' pionship on the links of the famed Athens Country Club.
~ Coach Howell Hollis’ Georgia
team, composed of defending SEC
champion Griffin Moody, jr., Les~
ter Kelly, Frank Stevenson, Gene
Hay and Nolen Richardson, will
be out to defend the Bufidozs’
conference team championship.
Moody placed second in the In=
tercollegiate competition last year,
shooting a par 288, which was ten
strokes back of North Texas
State’s Billy Maxwell, National
Amateur champion, back this year
in an attempt to egqual Al Besse
link’s record of copping the Inter= |
collegiate two years in succession. |
Maxwell Is Favorite i
Maxwell is the favorite, while |
his North Texas Eagles are tabbed
to repeat as the team champions.
In the SEC picture, held concur
rently each year with the Inter- |
collegiate, Georgia’s main foes for |
the team title are LSU, Florida ;
and Alabama. i
A sidelight of the teurnament is
the entry of Georgia co-ed Anne
Twilly of Griffin, the first female
golfer ever to enter the tourna
ment.
Among the favorites from the 25
colleges entered are Billy Key of
Rollins College, Bert Weaver of
LSU, Don January of North Texas
State, Charley Spence of the crack
Citadel team, and Georgetown
captain, Johnny Neis.
Eighteen holes of the 72-hole
total will be played today, 18 more
tomorrow and thes grama ¢6.on
Saturday. ’
Tourney Results
Dick Tiddy, Wake Forest, was
low man among those completing
the first nine holes by noon in
the Southern Intercollegiate Golf
Tournament at Athens Country
Club, with a four-under-par 32.
Billy Key, of Rollins College, was
next with a 34, two under par of
36.
Scores of others completing the
first nine by noon, were:
Frank Pidcock, Emory, 40; Les
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Business Fine,
Merchants Say
A number of business houses this
morning said that the response on
the first morning of the three
“Athens Savings Days” has been
terrific.
One merchant, who stocked 600
rugs for the event, said that by
noon he had already sold over 300
of them. Other stores reported
heavy trading,. while a few said
that their business vblume was
about the same as usual on Thurs=
days.
' A number of the places of busi
ness are offering wvaluable door
prizes, including such items as
electric range, electric refrigerator,
handsome chair, mattress and box
springs, vacuum cleaner, four
automobile tires, television set and
a number of other prizes.
The prizes are absolutely free
and both Athenians as well as out
of-towns visitors are eligible to
win them. All one has to do is
register, giving name and address.
It is not necessary to buy anything.
A number of the merchants
pointed out that while business
this morning was unusually good,
they expect Friday and Saturday
to be the really big days in regard
to business.
DR. CLEGG TO SPEAK
A number of Athenians will
ride. out to Sanford, in Mhdison
County, Sunday morning to hear
Dr. C. R. Clegg, president of
Young Harris College, speak at
the 11 o'clock service at Gordon’s
Chapel Methodist Church,
The public is cordially invited
to attend the service.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and not much change in
temperature today, tonight and
Friday. Low tonight 58, high
tomorrow 86. The sun sets to
night at 7:16 and rises tomor
row at 5:44.
GEORGIA — Fair, with no
appreciable change in tempera
ture today through Friday.
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DEFENDING SEC
CHAMP
Griffin Moody, jr., of Athens,
will lead Georgia's golfers into
the Southern Intercollegiate
battle over the links of the Ath
ens Country Club. Moody is de
fending SEC champion and was
runner-up in the Intercollegiate
competition last year.
Gives Reporfs
On City School
Report of a reviewing com
mittee, which spent two days in
Athens inspecting all phases of the
public school system has been
completed and is made public.
The report goes into the good
features of the local schools as
well as the unfavorable ones and
makes certain recommendations
to the City Board of Education.
The board is not bound by the
recommendations and may carry
them out or nct.
However, in order to be eligible |
for capital outlay funds under
the provisions of the Minimum
¥oundation, such a survey was
necessary, as a basis for determin- l
ing the needs of the schools, |
Committee Members 4
The reviewing committee was
comprised of Mrs. Alice N. Bo
hannon, instructional supervisor,
DeKalb County Schools,
Miss Mary B. Brooks, Associ
ate Professor of Education, G. S.
C. W. Milledgeville.
J. K. Acree, superintendent,
Elberton City School, Elberton.
Miss Dora Mollenhoff, superv
isor, Homemaking Education State
Department of Education, Athens.
Tom Boyd, principal, Washing
ton School, Washington, Ga.
J. Gordam Garrison, assistant
director, Textbook and Library
Division, State Department of Ed
ucation, Ochlochnee, Ga.
J. M. Jarrard, area representa
tive, State Department of Educa
tion, Gainesville.
Paul Carroll (chairman), dean,
Georgia Teachers College, States
boro, Ga.
g Two-Day Study
Upon the invitation of the Ath
ens Board of Education, the Re
viewing Committee spent two days
in Athens to study the school
cituation, and on the basis of all
available information, to make re
commendations with regard to the
location of permanent school cen
ters for the white and Negro
schools and the improvement of
school facilities at these centers.
The committee met with the su
perintendent and the supervising
principal for orientation as to prior
planning and progress. =At ‘this
conference the spot maps of the
pupil population were carefully
studied, and the survey reports
compiled by the local survey com
mittees cn population, school pro
gram, finance, and plant facilities
were critically examined. The
committee then inspected the
existing school centers including
the new high school under con
struction.
¥ollowing this period of orienta
tion, study, and observation, as a
wasig for arriving at the recom=-
nicnidations in this report the com
mittee agreed upon the following
~riteria:
Suggested Criteria
1. Permanent school ecenters
should be located as near as pos
sible to the center of the pupil
population. 5
2. An elementary schHiol should
enroll enough pupils to provide
at least one teacher per grade. °
3. The entire school program
should be planned to assure a
maximum return for the money
invested and should be organized
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Violent Riofi
In Red Nati
By The Associated Press
Riots, strikes and rival demon
strations by Communists and non
communists flared around the
world this May Day as the work
ers of the world—far from united
—showed their colors and shouted
their creeds in the cold war,
Tokyo was bloodied with violent
riots.
Berlin Demonstration
gy - e g
an h v emon
strations within dfit of each
other, Soviet Prime Minister Sta
lin authenticated pro-Red celebra
tions by appearing at Lenin’s
tomb to watch Soviet might troop
through Red Square.
New Yoirk readied a parade
down Eighth Avenue with 1,800
police and detectives alerted to
watch, But Louis Weinstock, or
-1 ganizer of the combined Commu
‘nist and leftist demonstration,
was slated for another day in
i court, where he is on trial with 15
lother secondary Red leaders.
[ Singapore Contrast
i Singapore was a contrast. About
1 5,000 Chinese, Indians and Malays
}observed the international labor
Iholiday by saying prayers for the
| dead of the two world wars.
! In Tokyo thousands of Commun
iists, swinging clubs and throwing
rocks, burst through police lines
upon a peaceable non-Red crowd
‘of 800,000.
‘Witnésses said more than 100
persons—some of them Americans
—were injured. Two American
speakers—Socialist Norman Tho-~
mas and the president of the Am
erican Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters, J. Philip Randolph—
retreated from Meiji Park in To
ikyo without having a chance to
address the non-Red workers, |
i Stone Building |
Comnrunists stoned the Dai Ichi |
Building, until recently Allied oc
cupation headquarters. More tried
to cram into the forbidden plaza
before the Imperial Palace. Police
drove them back with clubs andl
tear gas. i
Americans were shoved and hit i
by rocks. |
’ The rioters stormed for five |
hours, waving Red banners, car-i
rying pictures of Stalin and shout- |
ing “Go home, Yankees.”
Soviet troops and workers pa
raded before Stalin, His son Vas
sily, a lieutenant general in the
Red Air Force, led aerial squad
rons in a thundering stream over
Moscow’s sunlit Red Square. ’
"Anti-West Speech
Marshal Leonid Govorov made |
a violently anti-Western speech to ‘
the massed troops in the square. |
He accused the West of reviving |
imperialism in Germany and Ja
pan and nraking a “bandits war”
in Korea.
“The American barbarians have
committed the greatest crime
against humanity by using bacte
riological weapons in Korea and
in China,” he said, reiterating
charges which the West has re- |
peatedly denied. |
Show Li ‘
vesfock
OW LIVES 1
A list of College of Agriculture
students participating in the an
nual Little International Livestock
Show to be held on the campus
Friday evening was announced to
day by Dr. A, E. Cullison, chair
man of the Division of Animal
Husbandry.
Students and the breeds of ani
mals to be shown include:
Saddle Mares: Billy Easterlin,
Andersonville; Bill Thorpe, Nor
folk, Virginia; John Bowen, Amer
icus. |
Angus Bull Calves: Timothy
Bramlett, Greensboro; Ronnie
Busbee, Vienna; Raiford Cl,axton.,'
Girard; Robert Watkins, Sandy
Springs; and Joe Vandergriff, De- '
catur. i |
Angus Heifers: Louis Deaton, |
Stone Mountain; Bill Hardy, At
lanta; Danny Hendricks, Wood-‘
land; and Edythe Sorrow, Atlan- |
ta. !
Angus Heifer Calves: Harold |
Stocks, Alto.
Angus Steer Calves: Hugh Alex
ander, Cornelia; ana@ Talmadge |
Duvall, Greensboro. i
Hereford Bulls: Bill Andrews,
Ringgold; Little George, Franklin;
Dorman Lott, Metter; Emmett
Reynolds, Arabi; and Bill String- |
er, Cairo.
Hereford Heifer Calves
(Horned): H. D. Briscoe, Monroe;
Grady Calvert, Chesnee, S. C.;
Jack Hill, Sparta; C. W, Lawson,
Hawkinsville; Stauffer Malcom,l
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Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trg{, A_m
ClO Leaders Give No Sign About
Possibility Of Returning To Work
WASHINGTON, May I.— (AP)—The steel companies
today asked the U. S, Court of Appeals to bar the govern=
ment from raising wages while holding their seized plants.
The companies took their plea
to the same court which last night
acted to continue the government
seizure temporarily in effect un
til the Supreme Court says
whether it will rmle on the ques
tion of whether President Tru=-
man had authority to take over
the mills.
In the fields, most of the mills
were closed up,
CIO steelworkers maintained
pickets even though technically
they were striking against the
government. Their top officers
weren't talking about the situa
tion and gave no sign they would
try to get *hie men back to work.,
Fear Wage Hike
The steel firms were concerned
that at some point the govern=-
ment might seek to lure the 650,-
PLEA REFUSED
WASHINGTON, May Il—
(AP)—The U. 8. Court of Ap~
peals by a 5 to 4 vote refused
today to bar the government
raising wages 'of steel workers
while it holds the seized mills.
000 strikers back to their jobs by
offering the pay raise which their
president, Philip Murray, had
tried unsuccessfully to pry out of
the steel firms.
But a pay increase was not con
sidered likely right away.
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer,
nominal director of the seized in
dustry for the government, called
a news conference on the steel
crisis.
Ten days ago, Sawyer said the
, Sovernment intended to give the
steelworkers a pay raise, but
there was no decision on the
amount.
Since Sawyer's statement, how=-
ever, the whole situation has been
somewhat altered by the battling
in the courts.
U. S. District Judge David A.
Pine ruled cn Tuesday that the
seizure was without constitutional
or legal authority. Yesterday, he
signed a formal order directing
return of the mills to their owners.
Appealed Case
| The government turned to the
Appeals Court and it stayed Pine’s
orders so that the Justice Depart
ment would have time to ask the
Supreme Court to review Pine’s
decision.
The only condition the Appeals
Court attached was that the gov
ernment must take the case to the
Supreme Court by Friday, If that
is done, the stay may continue in=
definitely until a final decision.
Solicitor General Philip B, Perl=
man entered the case yesterday by
apeparing in the Appeals Court
with a fervent plea for a stay of
the Pine injunction, asserting that
“the fate of the mnation” might
hang on the outconre of the litiga=
tion.
Murray, the union president, has ’
given no indication whether he |
will try to get the men back te !
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Sheriff Asks For
.
Less Congestion
.
At Princeton Dam
Sheriff Tommy Huff today re
quested that persons who go to
the Princeton Dam, scene of Sun
day's tragic drowning, park their
automobiles on the highway and
walk down to the dam. This re=
quest, he said, is for the purpose
of relieving the congestion of cars
and curiosity-seekers who have
been crowding the area.
The Sheriff added that the con
gestion on the dirt road is inter
ferring with the passage of es
sential trucks and workers that
must travel the road in their ef
forts to recover the body of 24-
year-old Hampton Ceuch who was
drowned in the river Sunday.
Sheriff Huff added a word of
appreciation from the Couch fam
ily for the many workers who are
aiding at the scene.
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UNITED CHURCH WOMEN of Athens will hear a
forum discussion at their banquet “for the whole family”
at 6:30 Friday evening. The banquet has been planned,
for the Georgian Hotel with members of all denomina
tions in attendance. Members of the forum (left to right)
are: Mrs. Fred Bennett, Guy Driver, Mary Collier, Rev.
Brunson Wallace, Carolyn Whitehead and Dr. Harmon
Ramsey.
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EDITION
Gas Shortage Is .
Reported As Ol @
Strike Continues
DENVER, May I—(AP)—The
nation-wide strike of nearly 90,000
unionized oil industry workmen
went into its second day teday
with shortages of gasoline for mo
torists already reported in scatter
ed areas.
Some filiing stations in the
steel-producing area of Gary,
Hammond and East Chicage, Ind.,
' reported they were out of gasoline
last night, less than 24 hours after
the strike began, Other stations
were expected to run out today.
Similar shortages were cropping
| up in the Midwest,
Promising Meetings
The Oil Workers Intermational
Union CIO in Denver, represent
ing refinery and pipeline workers
and heading a coalition of 22 CIO,
' AFL and independent oil umions,
| sald “the most promising” nego
tiations were going on im San
Francisco,
Officials said the union in talks
- with Shell Oil had trimmed its
original demand for a 25-cents
;' hourly wage boost tO-22 cents and
“a lot of other compromn.ises are
being kicked around.”
The average wage in the indus
try now ranges from $2 to $2.10
hourly.
Air Transport Pinch
Air transport was expected teo
feel the pinch of high ocrane gaso
line shortage. Secretary of the In
terior Chapman predicted it would
be the first transportation industry
to be hit hard.
The defense effort, railroading
and private industry are not ex
pected to be affected seriously.
Natural gas flow through pipe=-
lines is being maintained by su=
pervisory personnel. .
In Washington government offi
cials estimated today the nation
has about a 45-day supply of gaso
line and said shortages must be
expected if the oil workers strike
is prolonged.
QOther Products
Of other petroleum produets, the
government estimated there is a
49-day supply of distillate fuel ;o‘i}
the kind used for house heating’
a T4-day supply es kerosene, and
a 28-day supply of residual fuel
oil,
Officials said ft is certain that
reduction of current gasoline
stocks by one-half would mean
a nationwide shortage of major
proportions.
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Candidates To
Be Televised
Leading presidential eandi
dates of both major parties will
make an unprecedented appear
ance on the same platform at the
League of Women Voiers eon
vention in Cincinnati this even
ing, May 1. The program will
be telecast by ABC, 2-10 p. m.
(Athens time) and will be
broadcast by NBC 11:30-12.
Athens participated in the na
tion-wide balloting which de
termined the issues so be dis- |
cussed. All voters are urged to |
see and hear the programs.
Details of the telecast will be
found on page two of this edi
tion.